The Sun. — London, England, 1838-06-05 00:00:00

The consideration (Eemanded lay the legislative measures at I - present under discussjl)n for the benefit (we trust we may say) of Ireland, has. otnehesr'ity withdrawn our attention from lhe acts of the Executive ar, that count r y. We have not had eisure so much as to r aatieee the recent energetic proceeding of the Government witlo. - relation to the magistrates of Carlow, whose monstrous a* Jock open the most sacred iustitution con nected with the a anniniairation of the law was some time since related c ircurns'Avitia'aly in this journal. It will suffice at pre sent to rernin'', our readers that the offence committed by th a seven eseni%ernen in question was one of no less enormit ~„ t I . ;han u deliberate attempt to pack the jury panel of th . ,:e ou vty with their own partisans and creatures, with a i , pp. cu'4 view to pollute the stream of justices in coo in trials of a political or party nature that were nr atnected to take place at the assizes and ousster sesneous then approaching. To effect this nefarn, us objec',, the plan adopted was the exclusion from ''. n e panel of no fewer than 300 individuals, 'mostly Cathorecs, hut all known, or sup posed to be of the L'leral party., or politically opposed to the seven wise men of - the quorwat o To this plan there was but ono obstacle—an express preavision of a recent statute, by vir tue of which tho so 300 ire r .ivicluals had as clear right to the jurors of Carlo w as he r most gracious Majesty has to be queen of E' „gland- We need scarcely say that seven Orange Justi- ces of Vac Peace (the seven champions of Protes tantism) di' i not, allow so trifling an impediment as a paltry Act of Par tianeent to stand in the wey of their lofty projects , They cies sred it at a bound, as the best fox-hunter amon gst them r rould have cleared a five-barred gate. Perhaps -a, nnore darin' g breach of magisterial duty, or a more flagrau', v; elation of th e law to serve the purposes of party, was -,ever perpe trao :d, even in the country which witnessed - the outrage to ' , nil' .ch we have thus cursor - 11y referred. T',lo proceedings of th ese magistrates violated the very chastioy of justice ; but the 1 in - :es were, and in the memory of young men, when such conduct would have b .:en the dire' t road to glory and prefer rneent ; when an act like this would have fret with applause, .encouragement, wad reward, and the perpetrators of it have basked in the se tiniest smiles of viceregal favour, and rejoiced in Benjamin's portion of the feast of patronage and power. It is anythi'ag but marvellous that the Orange thrones and derninat sous should revert with aching eyes to those elysiaa days of. (authority without restraint, and crime without retri butiora. it is anything but astonishing that s' the little ty -rant aof the fields" of Carlow should sigh for the return of the.. Talbots and the Haddingtons. One stroke of the vice regal pen has cancelled the commissions of the seven ma gisterial delinquents, and the course of justice runs smooth arsain. This is following up the dismissal of Colonel vierner with proper vigour : it is easy to conceive the an guish and dismay of Orange-land, as chief after chief is drivco _from the vantage-ground of pen verted power. " We have fallen upon gloomy days; Star after star decays," -would be an ap - oropriete lament for the guilds and lodges. We could mingle our tears with theirs, only that the thought -of the benefit which a whole nation derives from their dis ters, dries up the fountain of our sorrows. But it is w none of the vulgar feeling of party triumph that we rejo* and clap our hands at beholding the career of the oppres thus energetically checked, and " the proud man's contomel thus spiritedly rebuked and castigated, We contemplate th .intrepid measures of Lord Muloaave's Admiaistration with t gratifying consciousness that they are acts of humanity a mercy. This, indeed, is government ! This is to fulfil t 1 rratest and highest functions of a ruler, the defence - the laws and the protection of the people. Ireland, more than any other country ef which we have any know ledge either from reading or experience, requires a governor of the courage and high mettle of her present viceroy. What first. ? Boldness. What second? Boldness. What third ? -.Boldness. The feeblest Administrations have dealt pretty vigorously with the crimes of the poorer classes of the Irish people: when the Rockite was to be transported, or the Whiteboy hanged, it was not then that Dublin Castle, in the days of Toryism, showed the symptoms of moral cowardice most decidedly. The of of men of influence and station are the true test of administrative energy. Before we extol a s r novernrnent for its vigour, we must know how it deals pith malefactor s in high places—with the man of f;rtune and the county potentate—oith the Member of Parliament and the roratelt master. The present Irish Executive is the first that has stood this trial as becomes the depositaries of the Co - antry's peace and welfare. Steadily keeping in his view t'ae great erds of government, the Lord-Lieutenant has re spected no man's person, but has enforced the penalties of crime with an impartial hand against criminals of all parties, de_ press, and stations, from the summit of society to its base ; not more resolute and vigorous in vindicating, the supremacy of the law against the pauper insurgent of Tipperary, than against the greatest landed proprietor of Galway, and the combined Ors.nge aristocracy of Carlow. Why do we dwell upon these points? Not only because in an Irish administration this is a new virtue, but because in this fearless assertion of the laws, end undaunted championship of the public interest, we see the accomplishment of objects of paramount importance, to Ire land in the first place, to the whole empire in the second. We see the - foundations of Irish tranquillity, order, civiiization, and , im prostement deeply and p ermanent l y laid - we see the first "loosen and steady attempt that a British Government has ever made to raise up and comfort that desolate and oppressed Ir.ember of the imperial family ; we see that attempt crowned with success beyonn all hope and calculation brilliant ; and eve behold in this soccess the first firm plantation of the English power in Ireland.—Morning Chronicle. In giving his consent to the establishment of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, Sir Robert Peel expressed himself as follows :—" I believe any hope of a satisfactory settlement mu i t befutile which does not recognise the establishing munici -I,4lbodies on the basis of popular influence." How happy would it have been for Ireland had this belief been impressed upon the mind of Sir Robert, and of the party which he repre sents, three years ago, when the question was first brought under the consideration of the legislature ! Had this belief been then acted upon in an honest spirit, from how much in jurious excitement would the country have been saved ! How much waste of time, and of worse than useless exasperating discussion might have been avoided in the House of Corn: mons ! l And how different would now be the condition of Ireland if, instead of st'ill having to struggle for her rights against avowed and occult enemies, she was recovering her long lost repose in tboir enjoyment !! ! In fine, how much better would it altogether have been for the country if Sir R. Peel and his party, instead o f d enounc i ng I r i s h C orporat i ons b ased on popolar influence, as nothing better than " normal schools of agitation," had at once come forward and acted upon the adruission which, after three years of uncertainty and excite anent, in which not only the British empire, but the British. Constitution, have been threatened with dismemberment—the *one with the loss of Ireland, the other with the excision of hereditary legislation—is now reluctantly wrested from thent4 apparently with no view to acting in accordance with its spiritjj but solely to gain an opportunity, by a seeming acquiescenceA of inflicting injuries on a Bill which it would be dangerous, if not impossible, any longer to resist by open opposition. Sir Robert has certainly an extraordinary way of exhibiting his aptitude for the l'remiership, into which his expectant parti• zans are so rabidly desirous of forcing him. All the most im- o portant practical acts of his political life have been founded oral a rect!n":ation of his previ ous o pi n i ons . His conduct on the present" occaoion is merely a second edition of that which he pursued etl re .erence to the Catholic Relief Bill. He recants his erroraj 'when they are no longer tenable, not from conviction, but neces- 1 sity. Instead of Premiership, or the office of leading the Go vernment of a country, we should suggest a new berth for . aim, to which we would give the name of derniership, or leaden'' of the compulsed aceeders to liberal government. We hear no more now of the "normal schools of agitation," though the most reckless organ of the most reckless and infatuated of the faction contends, that as Ireland is a poor country she can very well dispense with municipal corporations altogether, and not daring to argue on this position, contents itself with an elaborate calculation to prove that the poorer may be a people the higher must be their house -rents, and therefore, that Ire land, being poorer than England, the qualification of her mu nicipal franchise should be fixed at a higher rate. Instances,, too, are adduced, of the very cellars being let at 10/. per an., num in some of the Irish towns, as an evidence of even thed 101. franchise being too low to secure an enlightened consti tuency I But it is needless to rebut such self-exposing so phistry, though we fear, from the aspect of affairs, that Ireland, need scarcely expect any satisfactory adjustment of her claims in the present Session.—Morning Advertiser. Though we are considerably accustomed to the perusal of Newspaper articles of which the reasoning is bad, and the feeling worse, we do think that we never read quite so vile an article in every respect as that of yesterday's Chronicle on Mr, Talfourd's Bill for the extension of Copyright. In that arti- i tie stupidity an d i m p ert i nence conten d f or t h e mastery, an d ; one knows not which is the more excessive, for when the sole! pidity is contemplated it seems to be matchless, and when the trapertinence is brought under review it seems in very wan tonness of presumptuous folly to be utterly without a parallel. Conceive, reader (if you can conceive such a thing), the scribe of the Morning Chronicle sneering at the claims of Sir Walter S c ott' s writings for remuneration beyond twenty-eight years of copyright, and delicately suggesting that if Mr. Wordsworth, Mr. Southey, and Mr. Moore would have their families any thing the better of the literary works to which they have dedicated the labours of their lives, they had better cause a Bill to be brought into Par liament for that special purpose. We imagine that the hireling of some publisher, frantic with vanity, and fearful of having to share his gains with those who have been the foundation ©f them, has produced the silly and offensive article to which we think it expedient to direct the public disgust. He tells ; u 3 that "that there is not so much as three per cent. of din-, ference between the present value of a copyright for twenty eight years, and one for sixty." To this . fact there is added the following delicate insinuation :-_" This, indeed, is so, palpable, and so very generally admitted, that the convic o , tion is all but universal that there is a wide difference between the avowed and the real object of the Bill." Now, as to the • question of value, and the trade learning about " three per noon" it is mere vulgar journeymanism. What it means is,'` that if a publisher were buying a copyright he would 4 not give more than three per cent. additional, though the proposal of an extended copyright were made law,: But wh at d oes that s i gn if y ? I s the legislative estimation of ' the rights o f aut h ors to b e measure d by the office regulations; of' dealers and chap - men ? Whether publishers would choose , to give three per cent., or thirty, or three hundred a ddi t i onal , fos . the extended copyright does not affect the question.lti s e so.tefiropoeed as a part o f t h e new l aw t h a t copyrights should` EN,4ezetriPlctrily, i .sold to some publisher. If Mr. Talfourd's' fights will tsnyjilt4niseltaso I lb: the probability is that copyrig nesgo4(o, . era for more than their preseet extent, if *.fa .s ki cn i 2 - ;._ • . r ors will leave to their families the rever- va • o , jr. „.e.sok - l t is o t i 5 5.,.. isposed of to the publisher has expired. sn'oe . A t • ih re. ga sef pit- q out " retrospective operations," we have es n e & e n' • t --- airtady.sbowkihaf it i 3 mere delusion or mere fabrication. l SPIRIT OF 7:FIE PUBLIC 3 - 0 CRN ALS. I T 1 ;e Bill is not so framed as to have a retropective opera .. I tit ,n. Whatever individual rights now exist under the osw are to be respected, Nothing is to be interfered with, except the public right `eaich exists tinder the pre tent statute law tes seize tm-tra the coinage of an author's brain at the end of twetettec;iht years, Tins is a public usu r pati o n 1 which the tsosetnewt', law of tilngland does not sanction. Every lawful keels - was:et which authors make with publishers is to stead gor;cl ; b u t the Bill proposes t h at at the termination of ~ tat 'contract the property, instead of felling- into comnionage, 1 s".all revert to the representatives of the author. What the ' amenders (!) of the Bill proposed, is to make the law retros pective, for they want a law in 1838 to have regard to contracts rneele years ago, and to extend one-half of the benefit of these nontracts to a period of thirty-two years, at the least, beyond what was intended by either party concerned when the con tracts were made. It is. therefore, not Mr. Sergeant Tal fourd, beat Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's opponents, who are justly open t' the charge of wishing to carry into effect a retrospec tive ',awe—Morning Post. slis far as the circumstances of Cie dreadful affray in Kent heals yet come in an authentic shape before the public eye, they do not appear to us to show that the dreadful destruction of learnag life connected with the frantic asts of the madman Cksuelenay was at all necessary and unavoidable. It is not on Cep, part of the maniac aline that there appears to have be :•n j. deficiency of that sound judgment, the want of which in those who exerciegauthotity has so often a calamitous influence on human affa'rs. \''.'e pass over at present the circumstance of the maniac, whose brain, the surgeons need not tell us. xi as in a state of the highest inflammation, having beet' let loose iron society by the Home-office, from the peaceful security of the criminal wing of a lunatic asylum. We suppose the; e must be come investigation of that matter in Parliament, as Lord John Russell's answer to Mr. Plurntre's question upon that subject does not appear to be very setiefactory. It must be admitted, that if the Home. office has been -uilty of any re missness of duty in this metier, Government Is morally respon sible for the catastrophe. Not only was the maniac let loose upon society but released, as the event shows, from all surveillance whetever, For several days was he allowed to perambulate the country in a raving State of frenzy, armed with pistols and dagger, without any attempt being made 'to secure him uetil he had collected a crowd of poor deluded peasants, to wbcm he gave supplies of fond and drink, and who, as if bitten by the madman, became, by acme curious process of moral contagion, infected with his frensy. But though raving mad, we are not told of his havieg committed any act of violence up to the time of shooting the unfortunate man. who went singly in the character of a constable (though not being one), to arrest him upon a magistrate's warrant. For what offence agaiest the law end Upon whose information that warrant was issued vie are 1 10'1 iold. Against two of his followers, Wills and Newman, warrants were also issued, but we are la , in the dark as to is hat the charge was. An Evening Paper, The Sun, says it sees no good reason for such a step, and observes that " until Cour tenay brutally slew the constable, he does not appear to have ecramitted any legal offence." This is not se. He and his follower, had not committed, as we said any act of vio lence ; but it was in itself an offence against the law and the " Queen's peace" for a number of persons to be "riotously and routously assembled," and to go about the country, armed with bludgeons, in such a manner as was calculated to create terror in the minds of the Queen's peaceable subjects. Though a riot be not actually committed, an unlawful assembly is in itself indictable, and this was unquestionably an unlawful assembly, though in acting in terrorize populi it does not ap pear to have any definite object. The Ministerial Journals, indeed, threw out dark and mysterious hints touching distin guished persons having some connection with this frantic out burst, in connection with the Poor-law ; and one of them_ the Globe, made a most indecent and disgusting attack upon a nobleman who, by his humane and manly advocacy of the case of the oppressed poor in Parliament, has given especial offence to the autocratic dynasty of Somerset House. If Courtenay, in his addresses, made use of the unpopularity of the Poor-law to inflame the passions of the peasantry, it does not appear that any overt act of resistance to that law was committed or me ditated. It is certain that Courtenay'e madness took the turn of the more animal passion for destruction. Was it not possible, by some judicious plan or contrivance, to have separated the maniac from his misguided followers, and placed him once more under the salutary coercion of a strait-waist coat? At all events, nothing of the sort was attempted, but a simple constable and another were sent to take into custody this raving madman, armed with loaded fire-arms. Who can wonder that the poor countryman, who was made the " bell the-cat" on this occasion, was sacrificed on the spat? Then, when the soldiery were called out, to the amount of 100 regu lar troops against this maniac, at the head of 40 or 50 pea sants, provided with no other weapons than sticks and blud geons, why could not the maniac have been captured, or put hors de combat, without such a massacre of the unfortunate peasantry as is horrible to think upon ? Certainly the hasty, unreflecting ardour of Lieutenant Bennett, in rushing upon the madman with his sword, may have been the cause of hurrying on a general collision, which might otherwise have been avoided. It was an excess of zeal, creditable to the personal bravery of that gallant and unfortunate officer, but attended with most calamitous consequences. It does not appear clearly, from the evidence given on the inquest, I whether Lieutenant Bennett struck at Courtenay with his sword before the latter discharged his pistol, or imme diately afterwards. It ii true, one witness, who was not a military man, swore that Courtenay fired before Lieute nant Bennett struck at him, but Major Armstrong, who commanded the detachment, and who saw the rencontre, was unable to say whether the firing of Courtenay was before or after Lieut. Bennett raised his arm. It seemed to him that the very moment they closed on each other, the pistol was fired and the blow was given. We presume that this blow was one of the sabre cuts, described as having gashed the forehead of Courtenay. Had Courtenay been taken alive and put on his trial for the murder of Lieut. Bennett, and he were a person of sane memory, it would become a very mate rial question, whether the deceased struck or attempted to strike him with the sword before he discharged the pistol, it being certain from the statement of Dr. Poore, that the Riot Act was not read, and it also appearing that no warrant for the apprehension of Courtenay was at that time exhi bited. Nor, according to Major Armstrong's evidence, is it clear that Lieutenant Bennett ever called upon Courtenay to surrender. Indeed the belief of that Gallant Officer is that he did not. But then there was the death of the constable's assistant, which bad been previously perpe trated by the hand of Courtenay. In cases where a num ber of men assembled for some illegal object, and agree together to resist legal authorities, a murder committed by one of them in pursuance of the common object is, by the law of England, murder by all. It is upon that ground, no doubt, that the Coroner's jury have returned verdicts of murder against several of Courtenay's followers as well against himself, who is now beyond the reach of all human tribunals. The insanity of Courtenay, however, would have been a suc cessful plea to an indictment for murder in both those cases. Legally speaking, a madman cannot be guilty of murder, or any other crime, and then comes the question how far any of his followers can be implicated in the guilt of murder, seeing that the act of homicide was not, in either instance, murder in him who struck the blows? They were but the result of sudden paroxysms of insanity in Courtenay alone, not the con t-quence of any preconcert with others. Now, if one man be tried as a principal in a crime, and be acquitted, another charged as an accessary must be acquitted too, for where there is no principal, it is a rule of low as well as of reason, that there can be no accessary. We think the same principle might be applicable to principals in the first and se cond degree, for if there be no principal in the first degree, there can, we would humbly suggest, be no principals in the second degree, who are also known in law as accessories at the fact. No doubt, the prisoners against whom the Coroner's jury have return e d ver di cts of murder will be put upon their trial for that offence ; but upon proving the insanity of Courtenay, we dare not say, if the facts should be clear, the point of law will be raised which we have suggested. Let it not be supposed that, if the men be acquitted of the murder on this or any other ground, they would therefore escape all civil punishment. They are in dictable as rioters, and as persons being unlawfully assembled at common law. At all events, we trust, Government will never think that any judicial bloodshed ought to follow in a case like this, where the ignorant people have been led astray by a madman, for whose opportunity of doing mischief, in that or any other way, Government is itself accountable. The following remarks by a Ministerial journal, The Sun, strike us as being very just : " But after the murder was committed, and the desperate character of the lunatic and his deluded followers was known, were proper measures taken to secure him and separate him from them ? The military were summoned, and Mr. Handley made a feeble attempt to address Courtenay's followers. We cannot think that all was done which the law or which pru-1 dance requires. Surely the rioters ought to have been made I an are of the presence of the military, and asked to surrender. Probably the Riot Act should have been read, of which there is no evidence. But a gentleman, whose gallantry unfortu-e nately cost him his life, rushed towards Courtenay, apparently' to seize him, and the bloody contest, which a little temper ore prudence might have avoided, then ensued. We want to know if it were not possible by stratagem, by surrounding that wood, by some temporary delay, to have succeeded in appre-i bending the murderer, without shedding so much blood !" 1 Englishmen are naturally and necessarily jealous of the in-' terference of the military power, and we hope a time will never come when they will be disposed to acquiesce in the propriety of the military firing on the people without the order of the civil authority. Such a thing is only character istic of a state of martial law. New, according to the state ment of Dr. Poore, no magisterial order was given to fire in the present instance. At all events, Dr. Poore says he did not give it. This is surely a subject for inquiry in Parliament. In our opinion it materially affects the les gality of the homicide of the unfortnnate peasants. It ought to put the military to the necessity of proving that they fired only in the necessary self-defence of their own lives against men armed only with sticks and staves after Courtenay fell. If, indeed, it should turn out that the slaughter of so many of our fellow-subjects by military exe cution, being without a Magistrate's order, was committed in necessary self-defence, that is another question. We do not presume to prejudge a case, the whole merits of which are yet but imperfectly known, and which must be the subject of solemn inquiry elsewhere. But people naturally ask why cool, steady, regular mops, being in number sufficient to surround the whole party, and take them prisoners at the point of the bayr.ot, were not able to quell such a riot without so great an effusion of blood ? We should observe that it was by Dr. Poore's authority that the soldiers loaded, although before he had time to answer Major Armstrong's question, they fired. Dr. Poore had also given an order—which ap. pears to us a very extraordinary and unprecedented ene—to " take Courtenay, dead or alive," addieg that he hoped it might be done without effusion of blood, alluding, we suppose, 'o his misguided adherents. That order, "to take Courtenay, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, klg. dead or alive," may possibly account for Lieut. Bennett's con duct, which Instened Cic deplorable collusion. We confess we should rather any other ir agistrato than a clergyrroin bad given such au order, or presided at such a business.—Morning Herald. ! 25, and July 17, at four, at the Office of Mr. John Lovegrove, Gloucester. Murray, London ; Lovegrove, Gloucester. JOHN BOND, jun., cooper, Devon, June 16, and July 17, at twelve, at the Old London Inn, Exeter. Harris, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, London; Bishop, Exeter. THOMAS MOSES WEST, Shopkeeper, Rotherfield Grays, Oxfordshire, June 21 and July 17, at twelve, at the Upper Ship Inn, Reading. Neale, Reading ; Holmes, Bedford-row, London. JOHN PROSSER, timber-merchant, Cheltenham, June 25, and July 17, a t t we l ve , at the Royal Hotel, Cheltenham. Hornidge, Carter, and Voules, Bloomsbury-square, London. GEORGE TONKS, sen., STEPHEN TONKS, and GEORGE TONKS. jun., lamp-manufacturers, Bordesley, War wickshire, June 15 and July 17, at eleven, at the Hen and Chickens Inn, Birmingham. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chan cery-lane, Lon !on ; Webb, Birmingham. JOHN JAMES, wine-merchant, Cheltenham, Juno 25 and July 17, at two, at the Royal Hotel, Cheltenham. Bubb and Ling v.-cod, Cheltenham. SAMUEL WILLIAMS and JOHN WILLIAMS, leather dressers, Manchester, June 19, at twelve, and July 17, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Capes and Stuart, Bed ford-row, London ; Law, Manchester. JOHN HILTON BA ZLEY, cotton-manufacturer, Manches ter, June 19, and July 17, at two, at the Commissioner's Rooms, Manchester. Winstanley, Manchester ; Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London. BROWN PRIESTLEY, farmer, late of Welton, since of Spridlington, Lincolnshire, June 20 and July 17, at twelve, at the Sar.cen's Head Inn, Lincoln. Dvneley, Coverdale, and Lee, Field -court, Gray's Inn, Lundon ; Rhodes, Market Rasrn. DAVID DAVIES, victualler, Manchester, June 19 and July 1 7, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Adlington, Greg - iry, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London ; Whit worth, Manchester. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(TILTS DAY.) A. ,, ,,,thm C.F. 12 615 librz:tAr 4i ')..tto, at iight .......... ........ 12 41 4 Legtiorn 3 , 11, ...tt,r.:arri O U. 12 7 Genoa 29 10 Altverii... tlyTiitrv. .. '.1.8. 13 1314 Venice --.6 Auona ..... Pari,, days' ~ L ll.. 2's 65 Pali.. , :no per a. 11 '' ,1 '....... .............. 3 Ms. 25 95 Lisbon o:.'1: 4) &33, nirseille,. ... 26 0 Oii-oito 53., itinnileaux 25 95 Ble Janeiro • 28 F:::nkforton Maine, Ea.M. :54 Bahia 25 l'zter , iitugii, ruble 3 Us. 10 Buenos Ayres -- li ,:iiii Vienna, effective it '2 M. It) 113 PhiLidelphia rri,4t, ditto ........... ...... 10 1; P.tiCi.. Or' I)ULLIt3N, PER 0::. Malricl 7IN Portugal Gold, coin , 0 0 0 Cadiz.... 'lo z l4 Foreign {,old, in bar 5...... 3 17 1) B'lli.o_i ... I; .reelona ll3 New Dollar, Serille-, ELECTION COMMITTEES. (Tills DAY.) (Continued from our First Edition.) WESTMEATH. The Committee decided that the vote of Edward Lacey was a bad vote, and ordered it to be struck off the poll. Mr TITESIGEII then renewed his application for a Commission to ex amine witnesses in Ireland. Mr. WRAN(117111 opposed the application. After a protracted discussion, The CIIAIRMNN announced the Committee had resolved on granting a Commission as prayed. Adjourned at half. past four o'clock until two o'clock to.morrow. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of This Evening.) Svc:Att.—There has been an extensive and general demand for West India Muscovadocs since our last, both Grocers and Refiners purchas ing freely, for low and mid descriptions, good and fine yellow sorts have also brought Gd advance : the quantity sold privately for the, tin ce days amount to 2,700 hhds and trcs at the following prices : Antigua, not very fine at 63s Cid to 645, good mid 605 to 635, low mid 595 to Gls; St. Kitts, Jamaica and St. Vincents mid. gre y, 58s Gd to 59s ; Nevis and Demerara ord. yellow, 56s 6d to 57s Gd ; at public sale 216 hhds 43 trs 25 barrels Uarbadoes were taken readily by the grocers at prices fully equal to those of the last sale, mid. to good brought (ids to 65s 6d; ord. 60s to his 6d. In the Refined Market there has been more activity; the prices pre viously established have been fully supported, and from the grocers a good demand has been experienced fur both the common and better de scriptions of goods, 77s to 77s (id has been paid for Lumps passing, and 76s to 76s Gd for those rather under the standard; double Crushed have been entered into to wait three weeks and a month at 34s 6d, at which there are further buyers but no sellers under 355. In Candy there is no c h an ge. For Dutch Crushed Sugar there is still no demand, but under 33s Gd purchases could not he made. UILITIIIS.—Mid. yellow brought 57s Gd to 58s 6d, good Gls to 61s 6d, ord. grey to fine strong brown, 54s Gd to 565; the deliveries con tinue large. For auction to-morrow 9,600 bags, and for Thursday 3,00 W bags are announced. 'AST I SDI A.—Bengal continues in good demand for home consump tion, tine white brought 655, good 63s 6d, mid 62s 6d to 635, damps 62s Gil to 645, washed 59s to G2s ; fur auction to-morrow 1,100 bags white are advertised, besides 650 bags for export only. Of Siam there are few at market; 32s to 33s has been obtained for 200 bags of mid and good white. FORE:GN.—The market for Foreign continues to improve; in Ha. vannah the purchases privately are 600 chests mid yellow of the old crop at :265 to .26s 6d, and a floating cargo of 900 boxes taken for Hamburg at 285 3d; white descriptions are wanted, but there are few at market, 43s has bem offered and refused for good. The transactions in Brazil have been 30 ceests yellow Rio at 04s, 100 chests brown at 20s (id for mid quality. MOLASSES.—A good demand has prevailed for West India, and pre viotA rates have been maintained. The sales are 300 puncheons ; Bei*. Wee. ordinary at 25s 6d; St. Kitts and St. Vincents fair, 27s to 28s, besides 30 puncheotis Ilarbadoes soil at 31s for fine quality. TEA.—The deliveries for consumption have been large since our last, but the demand has been limited for black and green descriptions ; Importers, however, continue to require full prices. Advises have b..en received from Canton to the 14th February, stating that prices of Tea had advanced to 15 to 20 per cent. since last post. SPICES.—There are still very few buyers of Pepper, Cassia Lignea is held for late rates, at 38s for good mid; Nutmegs have been taken sparingly, good consumers are generally heldfor ss, good shippers for 4sld to 4$ dd. In Cinnamon, Cloves, and Mace the operations con tinue limited. COFFEE.—New Jamaica of good mid quality brought ills, mid 106 s a 110 s Gd, low mid 100 s lid to 101 s, fine fine ord 95s a 98s, good ord 84s Gd, Dominica mid 103 s a 108 s, Trinidad fine and fine fine ord 97s a 101 s, Demerara fine and fine fine ord 95s a 975, Berbice mid 106 s, low raid 100 s, fine ord 94s Gd to 965, broken 88s to 91s. COCOA.—IO West India there has been very little doing since our last ; to_morrow 100 bags Grenada, and 740 bags Trinidad, and on Friday 200 bags Grenada, being a part of the late large arrivals, will be submitted for public competition. Rom. —The total quantity disposed of since our last is 1,000 puncheons, 700 of which are Leeward proofs to 3 per cent, at Os 7d to Os Bd, 4 to 7 ores Os 9d to 2s 10d, 8 to 14 over 2s lld to 3s; 15 to 19 over Os Id to to 3s 2d, 20 to 25 over 3s 3d to 3s sd, 26 to 29 over 3s Gd to 3s 7d, 32 to 36 over 3s 8d to 3s 9d ; the remainder were Jamaica, 30 to 32 over proof brought 4s to 4s Id ; 33s to 35 over, 4s 2d to 4s 3d. TALLOW. —The market has assumed a firmer and morellively:appear. ance ; on the spot several purchases have been made in P. Y. Candle at 45s Oil to 465. For delivery business to a fair extent has been tran sacted for the last three months at 45s 9d a 4Gs per cwt. llicE.—Th e b uyers of East India have been compelled to pay stiff prices; good middling and good Bengal have brought 14s 3d to 15s for 3,000 bags taken by private treaty. Carolina is held firmly at 34s to fltis for consumption, and 25s for export, at which a fair business has been transacted. Otts.—The home demand for common Fish Oils continuing very limited, and there being no export orders here, holders have submitted to lower prices for all descriptions ; at auction 120 tuns Southern went 15s to 20s under the rates of the last sale, mid and good quality sold at 261 lOs to 271, ord 0 41 150 to 251 ss. 20 tuns Newfoundland Cod 341 15s to 351. 20 tuns pale Seal 301 5s to 301 103. IND lG o .—Although the home and export deliveries of East India have been extensive since our last report, still there has not been much demand, and the purchases have been confined to a few small parcels 2d to 3il per lb. below the prices previously established. C "ToN.—At Liverpool the demand continues very good, the pur chases last week amounting to 41,300 bales at firm prices ; a steady re quest has p revailed here, principally to supply export orders, an d prices a shade above those last quoted have been obtained; the private sales are 1,021) bags Surat at 41c1 to 51d ; 150 Madras 41d to 52d; 100 Ben gal 41d to 5d,.160 Georgia C. S. 541 to (lid. For auction.on the 15th inst. 2,700 bales, principally Surat are advertized. ERLIN, MAY 26.—1 t seems that it is now de termined that the stay cif all our visitors here and at Potsdam will con. tinue only till the 10th of June. The King of Wurtemberg will Propa_ bly leave u s i n a few dayswith his beautiful d a ught e r s . The departure of the oth er di stinguished guests w i ll take place in the beginning of next month. The Imperial family, with the closer circle of our Royal fa tnily, will then go to the Castle of Fischbach, in Solenca, from whence they will make excursions to the most beautiful parts of our Riesenge birge. The romantically situated castle of Fuestentein is already pre pared for the reception of the distinguished visitors. The Empress will use for some time the saline springs, and then return to Berlin, where she will remain till late in the autumn. The Emperor will meanwhile return to St. Petersburgh, and be again at Silesia about the middle of June, and then go with our King to Toplitz. It is said that the Emperor will again return to his empire and come to fetch the Em press in the autumn ; but first go to the review at Magdeburg. A huntsman of the Grisons had lately a narrow es cape. An eagle having carried away a lamb from his flock, in the vil lage of Models, he determined to destroy the bird, and having prepared a snare, placed it on a pine -tree near the edge of a deep precipice. On the following day he went to the place armed with a hatchet, found the bird caught, and climbed the tree to take it. The eagle, however, com menced a furious attack with its beak on his head, from which lie could hardly defend himself; lie could not let go his hold on the tree, and he had only one hand at ',belly. The contest continued a long time, and it was only when the huntsman was much torn, and almost totally ex hausted, that he succeeded by a lucky blow in disabling his adversary. The bird, which was a very large one, was stuffed and sent to the Museum of Natural History at Zurich. ------- On Thursday morning, after one o'clock, as a police man of the. E division was going his rounds through Hunter-street, Brunswick -square, he found a genteel-looking young woman lying on the pavement in a state of insensibility. He endeavoured to arouse her, but to no purpose, and with assistance he took her to the station house, when it was discovered that she had drunk to excess, and a surgeon was called in to attend upon her, but all efforts to restore her were useless, and she was conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital, and thence to St. Guests workhouse, where she at present remains, quite insensible, and in a dang,rous condition. Nothing was found on her person to lead to a discovery of who or what she is. She is about twenty years of age. Th e police are using every effort to trace her friends, and every atten tion is paid to her for her recovery. Th e benevolent ladies of Warrenmount Convent, who devote their lives to the instruction and moral improvement of the poor in the neighbourhood of Blackpitts, in the liberties of this city, have had their household furniture distrained for minister's money by the bailifs of the Rev. Mr. Thomas, of St. Luke's parish, who yesterday car ried away from the convent ten chairs, one fender, a set of tire-irons, one fire-screen, a carpet, and ten prints upon religious subjects. We shall not weaken the effect of this simple statement by any commentAry upon the system which pretends to uphold Christianity by such acts.— Dublin Evening Post. Friday morning a police constable, 1044 N, was passing near the Regent's Canal, Islington, when he observed a man plunge into the water. He instantly hastened to the spot, and went in after him, and in a short time succeeded in getting him out of the water in a state of insensibility. Medical aid was procured, and he was re_ stored to his senses, when he stated that his name was Carter, and that being out of employment and in distress he determined on ridding him self of existence. He left his hat upon the bank of the Canal, in which was a letter signed with his name, directed to No. 12, Madras-place, Islington, and stating that distress was the cause of the rash act. The man's life must inevitably have been destroyed had it not been for the meritorious exertions of the policeman, who risked his own life, and we understand that he is precluded by the Commissioners from making a❑ application to the Royal Humane Society for the reward given on such occasions where the life of a human being is saved. IREIAAND. (FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.) DuBLIN, SATURDAY. " An credi posse ullum populum, aut hominem denique, in ea condi tione, cujus cum pceniteat, dint iva quarn nee sse sit, mansurum You have been informed, from time to time, of the efforts made in this country to suetain that line of liberal policy which is considered the only one calculated to promote peace and happiness, and you are aware that the people here have long since been taught to believe that tithes would soon be totally abolished. Amongst the teachers of this tithe doctrine the most conspicuous were the late Dr. Doyle and the Right Hon. Mr. Gotdburn, of whom one passed a law, about fourteen years ago, on which the other chiefly founded his renunciations against the tithe system. I shall not, however, now enter into the history of " tithe agitation," but advert more particularly to the objects of the Parliamentary debates of last week. Lord John Russell's iesolutions, brought forward at the commencement of this Session, although susceptible of a more liberal construction than has been since put upon them, did not realize the people's anticipations. Accordingly meetings have been called in various parts of the country to record the public sentiments on this subject. You are already aware of the numerous assemblages convened in North and South Wexford, and of the resolutions unanimously adopted by them, never to be satisfied with anything less than total abolition. The ccunty of Kilkenny has followed the exemple, and Waterford county and several other parts of the South of Ireland are preparing to do the same thing. Thus it appears that all Irclaed is dis posed to give expression to their feelings on this subj••ct as soon as possible. In the mean time we learn from the discussions in both Houses of Parliament, that " an adjustment" is likely to take place this Sessicn ; but whether it be such as will meet the expectations of the great body of the people really interested therein does not appear. All that we know with certainty is, that tithe composition is to be converted into a land tax, payable by the owner of the fi:st inheritance. But how much is to be deducted from the present rate—which, in some places is exorbitantly high, and equal to the file,: rent of inheritance—or how much paid by the owner of said first i t.- 11critance is subsequec.tly to be levied directly off the occupant, or what indulgence is to be given to a Catholic or other Dis seating owner of the inheritance, remains as yet a mystery. In this juncture of affair's it is right to say, that if Catholics and Dissenters shall be bound to pay, in any shape, the detested impost, the measure cf this Session cannot give universal satis faction, and will not be permitted to be final. The writer of this, having opportunities of correct information from every part of Ireland, feels it his duty to be thus prompt in com municating to the public, and more particularly to the Legis leture at this crisis, his honest impressions on the subject. Ile thinks it right to state also, that while moderate men on all sides are delighted with the prospects held out by the conce,- sions and conciliatory policy of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, and fed grateful for such a boon, they are not without their suspicions that the course is one designed ulti mately to restore the Tories to power. And they are con firmed in this view by the conduct of the more steady and rational portio❑ of the Tory party in this country, who do not hesitate to put that construction upon the motives of their leaders, and arc actually consoling themselves for the conces. sines wrested from them, with the hopes of a restoration, at no distant period, to their old ascendant position. In truth, these speculations seem plausibly fdunded. For, if the present Go vernment shall not be able to secure for us something more than the niggardly concessions squeezed out of their oppo nents, and if the measures founded thereon shall be con siderably short of public expectation, the claims of Government to our gratitude roust be greatly diminished, and we shall not be so enthusiastic in sustaining them as we have hitherto been. It is therefore incumbent on tern, in the first place, to modify the Tithe Bill, so as actually to relieve the Catholics and other Dissenters from the immediate pressure cf the Church Estab lishment; and, in the second, to insist upon a greater number of corporations than the rule of 15,000 inhabitants in a town will include. There are several respectable corporate towns not so popu lous, amongst them Carlow, Wexford, and Athlone, which it would be both unjust and impolitic to deprive of their ancient privileges. The prevailing opinion is, that 10,000 inha bitants would be a much fairer stanriard to he guided by than 15,000. In other points of view, Sir Robert's exposition of his policy is looked upon by all intelligent persons as fair and statesimnlike —more particularly that in which he suggests the rating under the Poor-law Bill as the test of a bona fide fran chise in corporate towns. This is an idea worthy of adoption, inasmuch as it has a great moral tendency to prevent public fraudulency and fiction, and may be productive of very desirable results to the community. While Ministers, therefore, follow ing the Roman polity in advancing the interests of their country, adopt good suggestions, from whatever quarter they come, " Quod übique apud 50C . 03 aut hostel, i loneum videbatur," let frern take care not, on the other Land, to concede so much to Sir Robert Peel in return, as may render themselves un popular amongst their best friends and supporters. The people of this country cannot be charged with ingratitude amonast their other failings ; but should they discover, at the end of the present Session, that they owe as much to the Tories as to the Whigs for the settlement of the questions now under consi deration, their gratitude to the latter cannot be very fervent or lasting. If, on the contrary, they shall find that Government has struggled honestly and earnestly to obtain for them the greatest possible share, that circumstances will permit, of national equality and justice, they will not be unmindful of their benefactors. The blessings of an enlarged policy, as advocated by the . Whigs, are more deeply impressed upon, and more sensibly felt by, Irishmen now than they ever were before. This is prov able, not only by the cordial support given everywhere to the Mulgrave and Morpeth Government, but the new political in stitutions that have been founded since its commencement. Amongst these are the Reform Registry Association, estab lished early in 1836, still in existence ; the General Associa tion, which dissolved itself at the termination of the last gene ral election; and the Central Registration Board, founded a few weeks ago. The latter is, in fact, a revived branch of the Registry Association of 1836, constructed on a broader and more popular basis, for the purpose of counteracting the steady and systematic endeavours of the Tories, of late, to increase the number of their electors. If both branches co-operate cordially together, as it is expected they will, Tories can never again regain ascendancy in Ireland. But that junction which was anticipated a few days ago has not been effected, merely from an apprehension that some of the aristocracy-members of the Registry Association may not subscribe to the Central Board, because its operations are carried on at the Corn Ex change. Such prejudices, however, are wearing away slowly, and the Liberal aristocracy and people of Ireland are beginning to understand their common interest. SECOINID EINTION, SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock TETE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 5, 1838. Earl Granville, her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, has trans mitted to Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, an official letter (of which the follow ing is a translation ), which has been addressed to Earl Granville by the Count Mole, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, notifying the establishment of a blockade of the ports of Mexico, against all vessels, except British packet boats, employed in the conveyance of the mails: (TRANSLA LION.) MY Loan,—The Mexican Government having refused to re dress the numerous grievances for which the Minister Plenipoten tiary of the King, at Mexico, had been directed to demand repara tion, the Commander of the French naval forces before Vera Cruz has found himself under the necessity of adopting, as by his in structions he was authorised to do, the measures which in such a case, the dignity of France, and the justice of its claims, re quired. Accordingly all the ports of Mexico have been declared to be in a stateof blockade ; and this blockade, which became effective so far as regards Vera Cruz, from the 16th of April last, will, without delay, have taken effect in like manner with respect to the other ports of Mexico. In making known to you these measures, I h asten, my Lord, to add, that - the orders given by the Government of the King for insuring the execution of them arc so conceived as to reconcile the practical exercise of a legitimate right, with the re spect due to the independence of neutral flags, and with the sin cere desire to cause the least possible inconvenienc e to the navigation of neutral vessels. Of this the Government of her Britannic Majesty will find a_special proof in the measure which ex empts British packet boats employed in the conveyance of correspon dence, from the application of the rules of the blockade. This ex emption has appeared to us to be an indirect consequence of the liberal principle sanctioned by the 13th article of the Post Office Convention of 14th June 1833, which authorises the continuation of the Post Office arrangements between the two countries, even in case of war. I request you to be so good as to convey the present notification to the knowledge of the Government of her Britannic Majesty. (Signed) MOLE. Paris, June 1, 1838. WHITEHALL, May 29, 1833. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Adam Taylor the voutyrer, of the city of No rw i c h, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. Royal Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry—C. L. Phipps, Esq., to be Major, vice Benett, resigned, May 29. Marlborough Troop—Ernest Augustus Charles Brudenell Lord Bruce to be Captain, vice Earl Bruce, promoted, May 29, DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. CHARLES THOMAS, merchant, Jerusalem Coffee-house. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. JOHN COLLINS, Hereford, builder, from June 5 to July 17, at eleven, at the Royal Oak Inn, Leominster. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. SARAH SADD and THOMAS SADD, grocers, Beccles, Suffolk. BANKRUPTS. SAMUEL CHARLESWORTH, grocer, Shoreditch, to sur render June 12, at twelve, and July 17, at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, Abchurch-lane, official assigne e ; Foster and Lyon, Fish-street-hill. JOHN HUMPHRIES, victualler, Great Yarmouth, June P), at one, and July 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsal ger, Birchin-lane, official assignee; Vandercom, Comyn, Cree, and Law, Bush-lane, Cannon-street. WILLIAM ATTWOOP, clock-maker, Lewe:, Sussex, June 16, and July 17, at eleven, at the Star Inn, Lecies. Jenkinson, Walbrook, London. GEORGE PAUL SHARP, stone mason, Gloucester, June LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, JUNE 4. THE QUEEN V. HUNTER, GARDNER, AND WRIGHT. This was an indictment against the defendants and some other persons for a conspiracy to defraud a Mr. Wilkinson of a sum of money by inducing him to lend the same on th.s sup posed security of a reversionary interest, to which Mrs. Gard ner (the wife of one of the defendants) was entiLled, and by inducing a woman named Wortz to personate Mrs. Gardner, and sign the security in her name. The three defendants were found guilty. A rule was subsequently obtained for a new trial. Mr. Thessiger showed cause against tho rule.—Rule absolute. IVIONGAN V. ALLEN. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who practised as an apothecary in Staffordshire, to recover the amount of a bill for attendance on a Mrs. Ironmonger, during her last illness. The defendant was tlr. executor of Mrs. Aden. The cause was tried at the Stafford Summer Assizes of 1836, be fore Mr. Joqice Littledale, when it appeared th,.t the "plain tiff had sent in a bill fur 104/., and then an item for extra ordinary attendances during four or live years, 110/." The defendant paid into court 104/. as for the medicines, and 201 as for the attendances, but this was insisted to be a gratuity ; and it was contended for the defendant that the plaintiff, as an apothecary, bad no right to charge both for medicines and attendances. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount. A rule had been obtained to set aside the verdict, and enter a verdict for the defendant, upon the ground of defence taken up et the trial. Mr. Sergeant TALrovan showed cause, and contended that the plaintiff was fully entitled to charge for his attendance; and there was no law prohibiting him from doing so ; and that in this case the attendance had been such as fully to justify a demand of this sort. Mr. CHArit.ns Primurs, in support of the rule, argued that an apothecary had no right as that now contended for. Lord DENMAN considered that this was a question entirely of fact and not of law, and thtt. it depended upon two p ;iota —first, whether there seas any contract that the pleintiffshould not charge for attendarlce as well as medicines; and, secondly, if there was no such contract, then whether the charges he had made were reasonable. Suppo..ing that there was no contract the jury must have answered the question in favour of the plaintiff. There certainly was no law to prevent an apothe cary from eiarging for attendances, and he had a right to charge for them if he did not obtain a compensAtiom for them by putting a higher price rn his medicines. The other Judges fully concurred.—Rule discharged. EXCHEQUER COURT, .lu.vs 4. SPECIAL PAEER.-RHODES V. StiIETIIURST. This was an action to recover 200/., due upon a promissory note of one James Hobson, deceased, the deft ndant being his administratrix. The plea to the count upon which the ar gument now arose was the statute of LimittaionF, and the re plication that James Hobson died in 1830, and in his will natned the plaintiff as his executor; that in October, 1830, the plaintiff took out letters of administration, but that afta wards a probate was granted to the defendant, li.ho became administratrix, before which time there was no person whom the plaintiff could sue ; and that immediately upon the probate being granted to the defendant the plaintiff commenced the action. Sir. F. POLLOCK on a former day obtained a rule to ar rest the judgment. Sir W. FoLnErr to day showed cause against the rule.— Rule absolute. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. B 0 W- S TREE T. Edmund Moulder, the conductor attic omnibus 2,350, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged with assaulting Mr. Chambers, the Magistrate of Marlborough-street. The p:i smer was fined 31. for the aeault, and is default of payment to be committed to prison for two months. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Henry John Conyers, Esq., Y of 131}per — Bro::1:-stroet, ap peared before Mr. Conant to charge Mr. Duval, landlord of a public-house in Albemarle -street, with an assault. The Bench inflicted a fine of 3/. and costs. MARY LEB ON E. • Yesterday ElizabelA Clax on, a young woman in the ser vice of Mr. Henry Wood, a shoemaker in an extensive way of business in Berners-street, Oxford street, was placed at the bar before Mr. Raviinson, charged with hiving plundered her master of property to a considerable amount. The greater part of the property was produced and iden tifiod by the prosecutor; and the prisoner, who expressed sor row for her misconduct, was fully committed for trial. A ruffianly-looking fellow, named Thomas Morris, alias Gallows Tom, was brought up in custody, charged with the following wanton act of cruelty :—Police constable 165 S, on the previous evening, as he was on duty in the Hampstead row, saw the thfendant and a woman seated in a small cart, drawn by an apparently half-starved dog. The animal, owing to the weight behind it, be c a me compl e t e ly ex h aus t e d, an d, being unable to proceed farther, the defcodant in a rage jumped down and kicked it on the head and body with all his might. A number of persons, who by the brutality exercised hart been attracted to the spot, expressed in no very measured terms their execration at the revolting conduct of the de fendant, who, on being spoken to by witness, seized him by the coat, and threatened to strangle him. He was not sober, and after a desperate resistance he was conveyed to the station house. Mr. RAWLINSON (to the defendant)—What have you to say in excuse for such brutality ? Defendant—LVy, 1 says this here—l didn't kick the hanirnal at all, and I did'nt touch the plccercan. Mr. RAWLINSON—What do you say to sitting at your ease in the cart with another person, and suffering yourselves to be drawn along by a poor dog, which was not equal to bear the burthen of one-third of your weight? Defendant—lt arn't true, your Vorships, I vornt in the cart not by no means, so p'leceMan couldn't see me jump out. Mr. RAWIANSON (to the constable)—Has this man teen brought here before ? Constable—Yes, Sir, for turkey stealing. Fined 305., and, in default of payment, committed for thirty days. THAMES- OFFICE. Yesterday, Bridget Martin, an Irishwoman, was brought be fore Mr. GREENWOOD, on a charge of deserting her two chil dren, and leaving them chargeable to the parish of St. Paul, Shadwell. Mr. GREENWOOD censured the prisoner for her misconduct, and said she had no business to desert her children. Her con duct was most unnatural and contrary to law. He con victed her of being a rogue and vagabond in having illegally deserted her children and leaving them chargeable to the pa rish, and sentenced her to six weeks' imprisonment and hard labour. He advised the parish officers to pass the woman and her children to Ireland when the prisoner had finished her term of imprisonment. CORONER'S INQUEST-MURDER IN LAMBETH. (Concluded from The Sun of yesterday.) Miss Glover, alias Green, was questioned by the CORONER. I was acquainted with deceased's affairs more than any person else. I never kne w of an y It a li an wear i ng green spectac l es meeting her. I never heard her complain of being tormented by such a person, or of her having any appointment with a fo reigner. She never told me that an Italian had offered her marriage, and wished her to go abroad with him. By a Juror—l knew that a man named Hurry was to come on the morning of Tuesday week, to drive deceased to Wind sor in a gig. Hubbard knew deceased was going. By the CORONER—I don't know the witness Edwin. I ne ver heard the deceased speak of her. CORONER—Do you think that it is likely that a person could come down stairs and commit such an act as this without your hearing him ? No, I think not. CORONER—Have you seen Hubbard at any time mending a chair or table, or anything ? Yes, I have seen him mend a parlour chair. CORONER—What did he do that with ?—With a small ham mer and nails. CORONER—Have you seen him with a small gouge or chisel ? —No, I have not. CORONER—WiIe w•asbes for Hubbard ?—Mrs. Clarke. CottoNEß—llave you heard that a handkerchief was sent to be washed that was covered with blood ?—Yes, I think a po liceman told me something of the sort. CORONER-If a person had run to the street door, end open ing it, said " I have done the deed," should you have heard it?—Witness, I em sure I should. CoRoNER—Do we distinctly understand you to say that the deceased never complained of ill usage from Hubbard ?—Wit ness—She never did to me. . George Grant examined—l am in the service of Mr. Clay ton of Wellington-terrace. On Friday last John Owen came into my master's shop, and asked on what day the m ur d er was perpetrated ? He was told " on the previous Saturday morn ing ;" and he then remarked that he was right. ( Here the witness gave similar evidence to that which he gave before M r . Norton, at Lambeth-street Police-office, which has been al ready published, when he was examined on Friday. ) By the CORONER-The manner and appearance of Owen struck me that he was not of sound mind. I saw h i m again yesterday. He was in the act of enterin g No. 11, W e l • lington-terrace, and I followed him in. H e offered a piece of iron, in the shape of an anvil, for sale. He asked two shillings for it. Police-constable H 150, then repeated his statement as to the apprehension of Owen, and p ro d uce d t h e letter which he took from Owen in the cofFee-shop. John Owen was here brought in. lie appeared to be about sixty years of age, and was bald-head e d. H e approac h e d t h e Coroner, and bending his head down to the Coroner's ear, he said, " I wish to state something in private." CORONER-But we can't receive anything in private; it must be all public here. Owen here whispered something to the Coroner. CORONER—Oh, we cannot hear you without being sworn, and I must now call upon y ou to ta k e an oat h . W e cannot be trifled with in a matter of this importance. Owen—Very well Sir, I will be sworn. The oath having been administered to Owen he then made a rambling statement, in the course of which he displayed con siderable action, the substance of which corresponded with his defence before the Lambeth-street Magistrates. In answer to questions by the Coroner Owen stated that Inspector Field had'taken him to the house, No. 12, Wellington-terrace, and after asking hint if he could identify the man he saw in the passage, the Inspector took hie into the kitchen, where twenty others were seated, and h e (witness) pointed out the man whom he saw on the mornin g of th e mur d e r. lie was smoking a pipe at the time. Owen a dd e d th a t so me persons might think him insane, but he was in hi s " c o m p e tent senses," an. I could give many respectable references. In answer to further questions the witness said that he Lad. been at the house where the murder was committed since, in. order to try and raise a little money, for which be ofil red t.® leave som4ing as security. Hubbard was here brought into the room, but Owen did not identify him as the man whom he had seen as be fore mentioned. Owen, however, pointed out a stranger in the room, and said he most resembled the man. Hub bard, during this proceeding, betrayed not the slightest agi tation. It being now nine o'clock, and the jury being very much exhausted from having sat eleven hours, the Coroner sug gested an adjournment. He added that it was most im portent that the per.,on whom Edwin had mentioned should be brought forward if possible, and on the application of Su perintendant Grensill the inquiry was adjourned until Fri day next. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrived her Majesty's ship Winchester, Sparshot, from the East in' dles, at Portsmouth, tailed from Trincomalee, Feb. 3, Simon's .113.. Y (Cape) March —, Si. Helena, April 11 , and Ascension --. Arrivals at St. Helena.—The Anger, April 7, from Batavia, for Rotterdam ; Oriental, Dubois, from Bourbon ; Alexander, Ramsay"+ from the Mauritius ; Maria, April 9, from Batavia ; Lady Flora, Ford,. April 9, from Madras and the C,pe ; General Kyd, Foord, April 9, from' China ; Margaret, Canney, April 10, from Manilla and Sincapore. The Argyll, Sandys, fi om China, in 61 days—spoke Isabel, Jones, ft om China, which was disrnasted off the Cape of Good Hope ; the Captain does not apprehend any damage to the cargo ; the ship makes no water. The Bale Poole, Girodeaux, from Calcutta; Julius Cxsar, April 10, from ; Prince George, Holton, April 10, from Manilla; Baretto Junior, Saunders, April 10, from Madras and the Cape; Elora, Blair, April 10, from Bombay ; Lady Macnaughten, April 11, from China. Arrivals in Table Bay (Cape of Good Hope).—The Thames, Wolfe, from Bengal and Madras; the Bland, Callan, from Calcutta, Liverpool. sailed for Arrivals at Batavia.—The Betsey and Sarah, Jan. 1, from Amsterdam ; Gravaihoge, Bulsing, Jan. 2, Antoine Marie, Admiral Soutman en dracht, Sweep, St. Christina, Masters, Jan. 3, all from Rotterdam ; Ja'va n " Witzen, Stadt, Ocean, Zunderdorp, Jan. 3, Palambam, Hucat, Jan... 59 all from Amsterdam. Departures from Batavia,—The Caledonia, Liddle, Jan. 9, for Lon don ; La Peronie, Jan. 12, for Nantes. Departine from Colombo.—The Jane, Wilkinson, Feb. 1, for the west coast of Sumatra. 11 A NOVE4, MAY 26.—The Hanover Gazette! states that it is reported that the Minister of War, General Count Von Alien, is the person whom the King designs to be present at the Cott,- nation of Oueen Victoria. The Kelso Chronicle calls upon the men of Rox— burghthire to rescue the county from the disgrace of having such an in— dividual as Mr. Scott forced upon them. The Liberals should look to• the roll in order to prevent the corruptionists from swamping it by non-- resid'nt and fictitious votes. CIDER.—We regret to say that there has been a very general failure of apple blossom in some of the best cider parishes in this neighbourhood. The orchards have been infested by a caterpil lar about half an inch in length, light green sides, dark green back, a'4 of a most prolific and destructive character. Myriads of these insects: have beers found on every tree in the districts where they have made•, their appearance,and stripped them not only of their blossom, but every: leaf. The appearance of the trees is truly distressing, and unless one saw them it would be difficult to believe the devastation they have' created. The trees are without a leaf, and have these destructiv e , insects swinging from them by a sort of web in numberless festoons. An' the mischief is, that where they have made their appearance, they hit* * , not only destroyed the prospect of a crop for the p r e s ent ;fear, but th e year following ; leaf, blossom, and bud, have all disappeared Z‘efore them: Having been in the neighbourhood of Thoverton in the early p.7•lt of the• week, we visited the orchards of Mr. Kii.gdon, of Chapple, the sce' e ` • brated and scientific cider grower, wh ose exert i ons h ave d one so nr,,Cl to give a high character to the cider of thi s county. We regret we I:a' a perfect demonstration of the truth o f all we have stated.— Nester' A CONVENIENT GAOL.—Some time ago a per sm was incarcerated in a jail, not above five miles from Paisley, for want of the neeiful. A friend of his came from Glasgow to see him, and for that purpose called on the gaoler. The gaoler unlocked the outer door, and after having looked through several rooms without find ing the prisoner, observed, " I'm thinking he'll be awa' out to the fish ing the day, but he aye comes hame gin five o'clock, and yell be sure t° get him then." A lady in town offered a glass of whiskey to a char woman who had been doing something about the house. " Na, morn, canna tab' it, for I've joined the Temperance Society." Dear Me ; What can I give you then ? Will you h ave a g l ass o f a l e ?" " 05°3 :4 eels , rum i' the house ? The regulati ons sa y no thi ng a b o ut it.- B " , ' Paper. When the To r ies allow one of their party to resigrg it is a sign they are petty sure of their ground with his constituell C Y' This is a fair index to the state of parties among the electors of the counties of Linlithgow and Inverness.—Glasgate Argus. WAYS AND MEANS.—(From the Shrewsbztrg Chronicle.)—The town of Wem has been visited by one of the most CC centric characters that has for some time appeared in this county. T be. person alluded to, whose assumed name is " George E. Groffnore. t he mendicant," has engaged himself under very peculiar circumstances; t° save 1001. by selling matches and praying some musical instrument be fore he lies on a bed, shares his beard, cuts his hair, drinks any/ales wine, or spirituous liquors, smokes tobacco or takes snuff. He attends e• place of Divine worship every week, and takes down the divisions of the' sermon, and in many instances the whole, by a system of StenograThe or his own, with the greatest facility, in order to prove his locality. fib emnmenced this extraordinary undertaking at Penistone, in Yorksteleif. is ISM, and up to the preseet time he has strictly adhered to the concll , Lions of his agreement, from declarations and certificates he has produced,. by sailing matches, and so great was his success, that in 16 week s he el...esti. lIL 15s. ::(1. He is now travelling through this county in the garb 9f a fereigner, playing a musical instrnment, solely invented and con structed by himself, although entirely ignorant of the science of music. He likewise engaged himself to learn some trade, by which he could earn 15s. per week, and in his travels through Herefordshire, he ar rived at Weobly, in that county, and engaged himself to Mr. Manning: as a joiner, previously not having any knowledge of the business, and so great was the proficiency he made at his trade, that in twelve months he earned 601., which sum was partly distributed in charitable puri poses, and the remainder spent literally in the neighbourhood. Various are the opinions respecting this singular and unexampled character, but it will suffice to say, that from his manner, deportment, and conversa , ticn, he is a man of talent, superior education, and extensive knowledge. He passed through in his first character as a match-seller, in July, IS3fiv was recognized by many, and treated kindly on his second appearance- He passed through Shrewsbury yesterday week, and is probably now in one of the neighbouring towns. INFANTICIDE IN CHINA.—The only justification which eat be imagined for such a pr a ctice is, the apparent neces sity. Eithrr parent or child must perish for Want of the necessaries of /ire, and it is considered in this country th a t the offspring should be m aje the sacrifice, as reverence to parents is the fundamental principle 'in:. which this vast fatally is knit together in th e b on ds of society. impossible to tell with certainty h ow many infants fall a sacrifice e ve i ; e y ' - H year, for it must vary with th e seasons o f p l enty an d sc arcity. people are encouraged to desert thei r n ew ly-b orn i n f an t s when the i s , that they have not sufficient to support them; and thus it is we find • many tiny skeletons among th e l arge ones, i n t h ose p l aces which arei r devoted to the burial of the p oor. Th e mot h er w il l t h ere l a y aside 81 parental affection, and carry the infant to the ground, leaving it with out casting a look behind, or listening to its last plaintive moan. Fe ln '' lc children are, in general, the sufferers by this unnatural custom, a s the fair sex is, somehow or other, unaccountably held at a discount in th i ` singular country.—The Fan-qui its China, THE WEATHER iv GLASGOW.—The We ather is again miserably cold. Yesterday morning there had been some rane with a biting wind front the north-east, and altogether we are more is‘t: having arrived at the end of Oct o ber th an b u t en t er i ng o n June. 1. ,. c t when we look back to former years, we see no re ason to conclude our climate is deteriorated, or to despair of yet gathering a fair crop IS3B.—Scots Times. T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, Cornloy London ( Seven Doors from Graccchurch-street), informs the Pu l l': that he has fitted up THREE SHOW ROOMS expressly fo r ~1) display of a large assort men t o f super i or SILVER-EDGE PLATED GOODS. He offers them at those low but fixed prfor.! which have been s o success f u l i n d raw i ng pu bli c attent i on to tn c 7 WATCH, JEWELLERY, SILVER SPOON and FORK an Silver branches of his trade. N.B. A pamphlet, containinr!' a 1:) , c tailed List of th e P r i ces o f Pl a t e, Pl ate d G oo d s, W atc h es , r bloci , t s : &c., may be had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer to a 1 )05 paid application. TEAS at WHOLESALE PRICES, in Quantities rlc`' less than One Pound. Black, 35., 3s. 6d., 3s. 10d., 4 s .,lS ma ll L ea f G unpow d er , ss. 84 ' 4s. 6d., ss. Young Hyson, 4s. 4d., 4 s . Bd. Imperial Gunpowder, ss. 4d. Chocolate Cocoa 9d . per o d l .o e r r per lb., cwt or . 7 : : ; cwt. 88s. T. G. MANSELL and CO., Wholesale Tea-dealers, 2, 1 3 " ek lersbury, Cheapside. BIRTHS. On the 31st ult., in St. James's-square, Lady Georgiana Grey, of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Kingsland, the lady of S. Osborne, of a daughter, still. born. o f On the 2d inst.; in Brunswick-place, Regent's-park, the ladY J. T. Ingham, Esq., of a son. ARRO S On the 2d i ns t., at St. M George l s, ED. Bloomsbury, Edward J ai l f , o Bevir, of Li nco l n ' s Inn, Esq., B.A. to Mary, second doug h the late Maj or Th orn t on , H on . E as tl "). ndia Company's Servi ce ",,oor On the 2d inst., a t St. George's, Hanover-square (the ue re i: n ian having been pr ev i ous ly performed at the Chapel of the Sart I 11 a, tleY Embassy), Henri Count de Cigala, t o A nne , d aug ht e r of L' . Bacon, Esq., of Bound's-green, Middlesex. a ld On the 2d inst., at All Souls' Church, Marylebone, Arc -1 I Cocke, Esq., surgeon, of Ulster-pla ce , Regent's-park, to t lan d Constantia, only daughter of Thomas Ki r t on , E s q., of the 1 -' of Jamaica. the 3O Antihie,ult.,at youngest ßenaere the Rev. daughter, of Sir. Georgiana On Thomas P ililipGSoocchholfied,tto DIED. On the 2d inst., at Brixton-hill, John Dobree, Esq., aged 62 ' of On the 2cl inst., at Deptford, M rs . M ary F ra nces Frank , r elict the Rev. Mr. Frank On the 26th ult., Henry Savill, son of Mr. S. Savill Kent, of Salccme Regis, aged 16 months. On the 31st ul v ., at Alascalls, near Brentwood, Richard Gard ner, Esq., of that place, and of Billericay, Essex. On the 31st ult., Eli za b et h, w if e o f Sir. M arc hant, of Gerard street, Soho. On the Ist inst., a t th e R oya l Mi n t, age d 5, Henry Frederick, second son of 11. Binglev, Esq. On the 31st ult., at Tredegar-place, Bow, Francis Brown, Esq., ag e d 76. ho On the 30th ult., age d 17, Eli za J ane , second daughter of t W. I'. Robert son , E sq ., o f t h e B enga l Ci v il Service. On the 31st u lt., i n Hill s - roa d, C am b r idge, Mr. Henry Hudson, aged 60. On the 31 s t u lt., i n G u ildf or d-pl ac e, Russell-square, El izabeth, widow of G. Whi tes id e, E sq . Whitehurst R. WYnn e ' At Vicarage-place, Kensington, on the 31st ult. , Esq., aged 77. eldestO n : ( 1; 1 1 , u R I t i . c , h a a r t d s l o i n u , gb E y s q S . , c 0 1 i f o o A I , b S e r a . m H u i e r i n a A n tr,t ~ler i D o n a e l z t u he l, shire, aged jr-. _0 On the 22d of November, on board the " Duchess of Kent,' the voyag e to Sydney, aged 16, Elizabeth, youngest orphan daugh ter of the late Captain Vine, R.M. - _ London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of.iNe. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the count)" of Middleeez,—Tuesday, June 5, 1888.